Spent morning exploring exhibits, poster sessions, and student showcases. Lots of wonderful ideas and people. Made some contacts for future collaboration.

Sessions 1: 3d building using Google Sketchup

Lisa Lennox
Many possibilities with google sketch up. Often not used to its potential
ORbit zoom shapes.
The tape measure allows for interdiSciplinary projects.

Most of this ssession was handthin with the presenters leading us through building a structure usinggoogle sketch up.
Thiswould definitely be enjoyable for our4 th and 5 th graders.

Push pull gives depth
Move tool
To group objects together draw a box around them and then control g
Zoom will go through walls
Hidden geometry shows grid lines
Components contains flowers house itemS etc.
To resize objects go to tools and scale
File 3d warehouse get model has large list of all kinds of 3d models. Very cool!!!!
Different kinds ofhouses. Relationship to biomes
Models can be grouped and saved to the warehouse anthem imported to create neighborhoods

Apps that are similar to google sketch up
kid timber -let's you build log cabins
Home design 3d


Session 2 STEM into STEAM adding the arts into stem education

Waited and waited and the presenter never showed....
Very disappointing! But oh we'll.

Session 3 creating teacher student videos
Birdsonawire.wikispaces.com

Awesome comic
"anyone following mean twitter already knows what I did this summer.

Short insuctional videos
Reading strategies
Math skills
Responsibility
Behavior
Writing


Editingwithavoki voki says what is written.
Dont msass assumptions about what students know.
Kids watch before or during or after
Gotta show this to Mai and Melissa and elaine

Learning from a. Idea and then making their own videos.


Session 4 info graphics and visuals - data visualization
David Warlick

Showing info in visual ways is powerful.

Google infographic a day
Power is in the questions that they inspire and provoke
Newsmap - color codes popular news stories
Information is beautiful - google it
There are stories in visual data

Some are designed to be cool.
Hiresolution maps of science
Most common birthdates
Movie genres
Wordles
Twitscoop

Learning by telling. Taking complex ideas and data and turning them into visualizations.
Pits about inquiry
Theme - background info- focus on one aspect that they care about
Collaborative investigations struggle with it. Essential questions
D work
Peent
Refekct and have hfinal con ersatz on Andean predict extend and apply
Cant predi t from learning when it has been delivered too you. Making info graphics empowers lern inert to dynamically relate to content
Its empowering. Storytelling is empowering
Tools: google data explorer, many eyes by IBM,Steven Abrams blog has tons of resources
Easelly

Session 5 iste ignite
Making connections is imprtatntb
Going back telling stories is important
We have the answers but they aren't simple answers
We arethemisfits and if we get organized. We are an army
Believe!!!
Take risks
Fedomdoesnot come without risk
10 features digital delivery, harnessing experts, gamification, individualization, choice, rapid innovationmand adaptation , using new sciene, wiki based open source, success based education, test when ready methodology,
Jonathan blank

Jac de haa @techwithintent
Responsibility to participant
Pour students connect and we need to focus on similarities
We need to learn to manage ourselves
Refekct on relationship with technology
Think about own beliefs as related to tech
Nothing in this life is to be feared only understood

Dave edyburn
Struggling readers
Dont banWikipedia simple English button
Text compactor. Paste in text and it simplifies it
Take any digital textsummarize for understanding
Offers text to speech support proactively valuing differences

Johnny Hamilton
Changing the lens
Muktiple perspectives to look at education
Think about purpose always.
Technology allows us to change the lens
Nonlinguistic representation - cooperative learning -

Summer howarth
Invisible hearts project
Send in hand hearts and collecting them.

Erin Klein
Educreations - check it out
Rmind 101 texting for students and teachers
class connect
Class dojo

Betty ray
Design thinking
Discovery define challenged prepare research gather inspiration
Interpretation
Ideation
Evolution
Edutopia.org/designcamp

Ben smith
Dont worry be vague
Give up control
We want our students to be creative
Culture onegotiation and choice
Creative innovative
Communicate andcollaborate
@edtechben

Allisonwhite
Using technology to encourage creative thinking
Authentic audience
Wich equals purpose

Nnfictionebooks
Social interaction
Fablevision
Get out of your comfzone